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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
I also found another research paper with more good info, but it appears to have disappeared. The title is APPLICATION OF PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS TO DOMESTIC REFRIGERATORS by C. Marques et al., and I found it here. If it shows up again, or I find it elsewhere, then I'll post a summary.
All of this research is very new, ie from the last 2 years, so this field of improving efficiency has some potential. |
I tried
your link, and it worked, but the paper came in very slowly.
I also searched the same title and
got this same-titled paper by different authors.
I know that sailboats have used
refrigerators with holding plates filled with a eutectic solution for years, to store cold for greater efficiency.
I don't want to discourage your research & experimentation here, but to my way of thinking, the idea of using a small chest freezer with a different thermostat that forces it to work in refrigerator temperature range is the
'coolest idea' yet. The reported energy use of such a setup is aprox. 25% (or less) of normal refrigerator power consumption.
No reason that both ideas couldn't be combined...
Best,
-AC